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Rare Pictures: Crocodile Attacks Elephant
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.nationalgeographic ^
Posted on 11/13/2010 3:02:02 PM PST by JoeProBono
Although elephants are very unusual prey for Nile crocodiles, the 20-foot-long (6-meter-long) reptiles will occasionally ambush and take down large animalsincluding dozens of people annually, experts say.
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: crocodile
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To: ETL
In an technique similar to putting a “twitch” on a horse, albeit at the opposite end of the animal; notice the guy has a firm grip on the Croc’s scrotum! As the saying goes, “If you get a guy by the ba!!s, his heart and mind will follow!”
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posted on
11/13/2010 4:51:42 PM PST
by
Tucker39
To: Tucker39
I think that crock is gay. Look at the big smile on his face.
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posted on
11/13/2010 5:07:26 PM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ColdOne
“Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea...”
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posted on
11/13/2010 5:25:41 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
11/13/2010 5:39:48 PM PST
by
fr_freak
To: JoeProBono
SUPERCROC!
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posted on
11/13/2010 6:05:17 PM PST
by
Third Person
(Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.)
To: Third Person
[Supercroc, AKA Sarcosuchus imperator!]
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posted on
11/13/2010 6:16:42 PM PST
by
Third Person
(Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.)
To: JoeProBono
Incredible images!
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posted on
11/13/2010 6:20:39 PM PST
by
Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: JoeProBono
Would have been a happier ending if Mrs. Jumbo had stomped the shiite out of the croc, rather than letting it slip back into the water.
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posted on
11/13/2010 6:20:46 PM PST
by
El Gato
("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
During the attack, the elephants were able to move away from the water with the crocodile still hanging on to the adult
.....guides in the Zambian park had never before seen such an encounter.
Even for the formidable Nile crocodile, bringing down an elephant is no easy task, suggesting the ambush may have been an act of desperation or a simple mistake, according to Don Boyer, San Diego Zoo's curator of herpetology.
[One obvious explanation they omitted: The croc forgot to put in his contact lenses that morning. This kind of thing happens to me all the time]
"Predators can make mistakes," Boyer said. "They can take on something and then say, Wow, hindsight is 20/20, and this was a big mistake."
This particular clash of the titans had a happy ending.except perhaps for the hungry crocodile.
"The elephant managed to turn, but the croc was still hanging on," photographer Nyfeler said. "Then the little baby somehow stumbled over the croc, and the croc released the elephant.
"The croc went back into the water, and both elephants just ran away." Sounds like a Democrat's attack on a Republican - they forget the power of the little guys....
But, of course, Democrats are crocks (sic)...
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posted on
11/13/2010 6:52:13 PM PST
by
azhenfud
(The government is not best which secures life and property-there is a more valuable thing-manhood.)
To: Third Person
I’ve seen that rendering before and have always thought the tail doesn’t have a correct taper given the body size of the animal. Maybe I’m wrong, but the proportional relationship is totally off...
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posted on
11/13/2010 6:56:49 PM PST
by
azhenfud
(The government is not best which secures life and property-there is a more valuable thing-manhood.)
To: Third Person
>>Supercroc, AKA Sarcosuchus imperator
For the record, Sarcosuchus imperator is long extinct. It lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 112 million years ago.
“It was almost twice as long as the modern saltwater crocodile and weighed approximately 8 to 10 tonnes.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcosuchus
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posted on
11/14/2010 2:33:25 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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posted on
11/14/2010 2:37:25 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: NonZeroSum
So what, do you think they're plants? Sure, they (we!) are not flora, but fauna.
But when I'm on a busy street, I don't see a herd of animals, I see a crowd of humans (people). If you think of your fellow humans in terms of animals, something may be wrong with you.
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posted on
11/14/2010 8:08:58 AM PST
by
Moltke
(panem et circenses)
To: Moltke
If you think of your fellow humans in terms of animals, something may be wrong with you.Yes, the "something wrong with me" is that I am familiar with the Linnaean taxonomy of biology. What's your problem?
To: NonZeroSum
No real problem here. But this is an instance where I would tend to not observe strict scientific nomenclature.
I’ll leave putting humans and animals on the same level to the PETA crowd (I am *not* saying you are some PETA nut). That’s just how it struck me.
Cheers!
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posted on
11/15/2010 11:04:18 AM PST
by
Moltke
(panem et circenses)
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